Loco2
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Loco2 is a website aiming to make low carbon travel easier, cheaper and fun.
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Loco2 is fundamentally a website offering suggestions to enable low carbon travel. Particular features of the site are low carbon routes to festivals [1], low carbon adventures [2] and making the booking of cross-Europe rail travel more straightforward [3].
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Loco2 was started by Kate Andrews in May 2006 when she was finishing her studies at Sussex University and planning her gap year. She was frustrated by the lack of information about low carbon travel and wanted to create a website where like-minded individuals could find inspiration for their travels.
Jamie Andrews (Kate's brother) currently runs Loco2. He is a Sheffield graduate (2004). He initially worked for a small company helping to commercialise renewable energy technologies across the EU. Currently he works for AMEE and has previously helped manage The Carbon Account.
Other people involved in the development of Loco2 are Tom Dyson and Nick Lee at Torchbox and James Cook.
[edit] History
Loco2 was founded in May 2006. Kate Andrews came up with the name and the tag line 'low carbon travel adventures' and won £1000 in a social innovation competition to take the idea forward.
Kate then put the business on hold in summer 2006 to travel across Europe for 4 months and has also been travelling since August 2007, updating the Loco2 blog en route.
Its not clear what the course of the development was between May 2006 and the present but, currently, the website had been updated for the summer of 2009. The site's blog continues to be updated.
[edit] Impact
The website aims to focus on the positives of travelling sustainably and offer fresh thinking and inspiration. Future aims are to have low carbon travel that is price competitive with flying, and to make booking European rail journeys simpler.
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[edit] References
- ↑ European Festivals Loco2
- ↑ Adventures Loco2
- ↑ Tickets Loco2
